Balanced Website Design: Optimising Aesthetics, Usability and Purpose - Couverture souple

Lawrence, Dave

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1846285186 ISBN 13 : 9781846285189

Editeur : Springer London, 2010

Synopsis

Real Website Design is a new methodology that fuses traditional strengths of structured, stepped, and iterative approaches to design and implementation, sharply focused throughout a project on defining and achieving the desired purpose, usability and aesthetic characteristics – which are essential requirements of any website. This book offers practical discussion of new perspectives on usability and aesthetics, and a down-to-earth, structured approach to designing a website or teaching website design.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Both authors based at Middlesex University.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Balanced Website Design (BWD) is a new methodology that fuses the strengths of traditional structured, stepped, and iterative approaches with a sharp focus on defining and achieving the desired characteristics of purpose, usability and aesthetics absolutely essential requirements for any website. The book includes discussions of new perspectives on usability and aesthetics in the special context of website design.

BWD is suitable for all types of websites, for individual and/or team projects, and should prove to be of significant value for even the most experienced of website designers. BWD provides guidance, structure and detailed documentation/process support for the activity of designing and implementing your next website helping you to maximise its effectiveness and relevance.

Features:

• A stepped, iterative, comprehensively structured and easy to follow approach to website design
• An approach that identifies and balances design needs against specific design ideas across each of the categories of aesthetics, usability and purpose
• New perspectives on usability and aesthetics
• Specially designed documentation provided to facilitate and support each process step
• A methodology that is applicable to all types of website, and to all project scenarios
• Resource based support via the book s website (www.springer.com/1-84628-518-6)

Dr. Dave Lawrence is a Senior Lecturer in multimedia web technology at Middlesex University, and has been researching in this field for over a decade. The BWD concept and material have been progressively tested in classes over the past five years. Soheyla Tavakol comes from a freelance graphic design background and has been teaching at university level in desktop publishing and digital media for many years.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer London
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1846285186
• ISBN 13: 9781846285189
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 234
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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